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SHARADINDU BANDYOPADAYA

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay was born in 30 March 1899 at Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, India. He was born to Tarabhushan and Bijaliprabha Bandyopadhyay. He passed the matriculation examination in 1915 and took admission in Vidyasagar college. After passing the B.A. examination, he studied law in Patna and then devoted his time to writing. While studying in Vidyasagar College, Calcutta, he published his first work, Jaubansmriti, a collection of poems, at the age of 20. He moved to Bombay in 1938 to write screenplays for Bombay Talkies and other film banners. He gave up ties with the film industry in 1952, and moved to Pune, to concentrate on writing. He wrote different forms of prose: novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. However, his forte was short stories and novels. One of his immortal creations is the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi. kaaler mandiraa, gouRo mollar , tumi sandhyara megh, tungabhadraar teere (all novels), chua-chandan, maru o sangha are his well known historical fictions.Some of his novel are portrait into film by Satyajit Ray,Tapan Sinha etc. Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay was awarded the Rabindra Puraskar in 1967 and Sarat Smriti Purashkar in 1967. He died in 22 September 1970.